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THE PAGANS

By

Arlo Bates

The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together. All's Well That Ends Well; iv—3

DEDICATION.

To those who would be Pagans, did any such organization exist, I take pleasure in offering this attempt to picture a phase of life which they know.

She answered, "cast thy rosary on the ground; bind on thy
shoulder the thread of paganism; throw stones at the glass of
piety; and quaff from a full goblet."
Persian Religious Hymn.

CONTENTS.